Bridge Club News

This event has now finished and congratulations to the winners and thankyou to all participants.

Serpent Division - the Eldridge Team (Viv Eldridge, Alan Davies, Robin Devries, Peter Bendelstein)

Staircase Division - the Eason Team (Susan Eason, Lynne Talmont, Simon Hunter, Bronwyn Neal)

SALT4 coming shortly.

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Reinforce your core play techniques as declarer and defender by joining a Zoom based series of small group lessons on Wednesday evenings (6.30-7.30pm) presented by David Farmer. Newer players who have completed a beginners course may find this particularly useful.

We will usie Joan Butts' Help with Play course material to cover 10 key ideas for declarer and follow this with 10 similar key ideas for defenders. As a small group we will use Zoom for discussion and then to jointly play hands that illustrate the key points. There will be time for questions and notes emailed to students.

The topics covered (two per week) will include:

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This year's winners of the Charlie Mitchell Shield run on Sat 31st October are Yvonne Perkins and Faye Carnonovale.  Congratulations.

It is a Red point, single session event and is in memory of stalwart past member, Charlie Mitchell.  The shield was donated by Patricia and Ian Giles

Charlie Mitchell was a President, Director, Mentor and Life Member of our great club. He died in2002 and survived by his Life and Bridge partner Lilian.

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Peninsula Bridge Club hosted the Metro North Interclub Pairs on Sunday 27 Sep with 116 players across four fields: U15, U100, U300 and Open. It was held online on BBO this year, with Ronnie Ng and Alan Bustany as our directors.

Three regional clubs, North Shore Bridge Club, Trumps Bridge Centre and ourselves, entered full fields, with an additional two pairs from Narrabeen RSL and Killara Bridge Clubs joining Trumps to balance the numbers from these three. Successes were varied across the four fields:

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The Over 50 Division of the October Online Pairs resulted in a photo-finish with less than 0.4 points separating the first three finishers. Lynn Baker and Jim Stewart won by a short head from Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies with Lois and Terry Rothwell an even shorter head behind in third place.

In the Under 50 Division, Lyn Talmont and Susan Eason faltered a bit at the last fence but their consistent form over the earlier jumps carried them through to a comfortable win over Christine Marcroft and Lidy Seysener with the Colenbrander brothers a respectable third. 

Congratulations to the winners and place-getters and, indeed, to everyone who took part.  You can see the results here.

We will have a one-off all-comers event next Tuesday (while an even bigger horse race takes place) but we are planning another flagship cumulative online event for Tuesdays in November and early December. There will be red points on offer and, so that everybody has a chance, there will be three Divisions, based on Masterpoints as at Sept 30, 2020: Under 20, Under 150 and Open. Look out for more details here and in your Inbox!

It has now been decided not to have an extra fifth round of this competition due to there being the Bridge Education Anniversary clubhouse session on Sept 29th (there will be an open BBO session at 1.30), so the winners are the pairs with the best three results after the fourth round, which was directed by Heidi Colenbrander without the intervention of BBO or any other gremlins!  Accordingly, I am pleased to announce the winners:

Open Division: Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies

Under 200 Division: Chris Dixon and Robert Gaven

Under 35 Division: Savitri Newman and Simon Hunter

Congratulations to all of these and to everyone who took part. A full listing of scores can be accessed here.

We shall be holding a similar cumulative event in October

The 2020 Michael Marks Shield was run at the clubhouse on the afternoon of Thu 27 Aug - the first special event to be run in our reopened COVID-Safe clubhouse. Red points were awarded.

Congratulations to Vince Cariola and Sue Hapek who won the event, narrowly over runners-up Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst, and Linda Abbenbroek and Jan McLennan in third place.

Michael Marks was Peninsula's president for 4 years while we were arranging our first dedicated clubhouse connected to the Nelson Heather Centre. He was instrumental in negotiating a favourable long term lease agreement and designing the space we have. 

Thanks to Cassandra Mitchell for convening and directing the event.

Many members of the club will remember Patricia MacDougal who was a member until 2017 and who recently turned 100 on the 10th of August. Congratulations and our best wishes.

The following article appears courtesy of the Mona Vale Gold Club, thank you to Suzanne Cole..

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